Cornerstone By Hillsong

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Cortney Ruic

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Aug 3, 2024, 2:12:51 PM8/3/24

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Popular juggernaut Hillsong Church recently released King of Kings last month. Hillsong continues to dominate our radio stations, playlists, and churches. In part, because much of their music is Biblically sound.

Despite our trials and tribulations, we still trust in God above everything else. Jesus is the chief cornerstone; the foundation by which our salvation, faith, and righteousness derive. There is no other foundation, frame, or name by which we can be saved. It is only through the shed blood of perfect Jesus that makes salvation possible. We will one day enter into His Heavenly Kingdom, dressed in white and having put on the Lord Jesus, not because we are good, but because He is righteous.

The majority of its language is everyday and poetic, easing unbeliever comprehension. Hillsong communicates deep concepts of salvation, Christ as the foundation, and His second coming in an accessible format. It will be easily interpreted as a Christian song given its explicit references to Jesus and His shed blood.

Those outside the camp of Christ might find the concepts of cornerstone and our dressed up in righteousness to be confusing. These are deeper concepts that require more than a cursory reading of Scripture to understand.

It glorifies Jesus through its focus on Jesus as foundational to our faith, His shed blood that saves us, and His triumphant second coming, where we will be found dressed in white. Its slightly annoying repetition does not take away from His glory.

This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, a hope both sure and steadfast and one which enters within the veil, where Jesus has entered as a forerunner for us, having become a high priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek. Hebrews 6:19-20 (NASB)

Reuben Morgan is one of their best writers. This song is lyrically superb. The tune also great. I am not a fan of the Hillsong empire. But this is a song that I Love to sing. More like the lyrics of some of the best hymns out there. Truth, truth and no Jesus is my boyfriend etc, that they often are now.